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contemporary dance

Benoît Lachambre and Benjamin Kamino entrance viewers with "Nudity. Desire"

Exciting performance art/ dance is high art entertainment at VIDF. Benjamin Kamino in Nudity. Desire.

605 Collective remounts Inheritor Album as part of the PuSh Festival

Pedal-to-the metal power abounds with 605 Collective.

Legendary dance artist Peggy Baker returns.

Canadian contemporary dance icon explores the work of Lewis Thomas’ The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. Photo:John Lauener Photography

MascallDance celebrates a decade of edgy contemporary dance with Way Out West

Master teacher Jennifer Mascall in action. Photo credit:Yvonne Chew

Brilliant young dancers from the Arts Umbrella Dance Company showcase bold, innovative works

Daniel Alwell and Alanna Sager entwined in choreography designed to ignite.

New York's Cedar Lake leaps onto stage of the Vancouver Playhouse

DanceHouse launches its fifth anniversary season at the Vancouver Playhouse with two performances by red-hot New York City company, Cedar Lake, in its Vancouver debut.   Shows take place...

Louise Lecavalier/Fou Glorieux takes Vancouver by Storm

Louise Lecavalier in A Few Minutes of Lock.

Acclaimed in New York, MOVE: the (dance) company hits its stride in Vancouver

At two, Josh Beamish, was already enrolled in  dance classes.  When Beamish turned sixteen, he made the move from Edmonton to Vancouver to train in ballet at Pacific Dance Arts and the...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre sends Vancouver audience into a frenzy

Like other modern dance companies whose founder’s repertoire exist as an archival representation, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has wholly succeeded in bringing Ailey’s name into the 21st...